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Violented cartoons, made 5-yearold kill his sister...

A 5 yearold boy were addicted to cartoons like Tom&Jerry. He grabbed a baseballtree and started to hit his sister. Reason? He wanted to see the stars above her head, so he keeped on hitting, till the little girl died.

I dont think they should make cartoons for small kids with violence, whats your opinion?

i totally agree with you.i mean, when you think about it, tom&jerry really have some rather violent scenes - and then, some 3-years old kid sees how let's say jerry puts tom into washing machine - or this example you've mentioned - when you think about it, it's really something to worry about.
of course, parents are the ones who should talk to their kid and explain he7she should never do thing shown in the cartoon...but i guess many parents think "what could be so dangerous in tom & jerry?"...

tom and jerry is g ^^; but even still parents need to explain to the kids a simple concept of reality. what happens in cartoons does not often happen in real life.
next a kid will walk off a cliff cause a loony toon did it and came out ok >_>

but mostly. where were the parents when the kid was killing the girl? O_o
you dont leave kids that age out of site for long.

Its strange how in cartoons a character would for instance - Be blown up with fireworks - Who knows what the kid could be thinking... But the main thing is that the character comes out with not a scratch on them. They just have to. But then again it is rated G...

yes its not good too... well i agree.. that is so sad.. well my 3 year old cousin tries to Punched my ... you know man thing... he thinks that his the superman and i'm the bad guy.. lol

Our CurseHumankind bears a curse,
a curse called the mind
For the mind is to blame
for the icy hands that kill,
For the salty tears
so often without reason,
And for the blood shed
by the hand of the suicidal
We are a burden to our own lives
And a danger to others, alike

I'm tired of this debate. Parents need to get a better grasp on what they're letting their kids watch. Watch some of it with them, if they must. Otherwise, don't let them watch television at that age totally unsupervised.

I know my father used to watch cartoons with us. None of us ever even thought about trying out some of the stunts we saw presented in the shows, but nonetheless he lectured us about them being dangerous.

Anyway, I disagree. This is somewhat like the "Disney poisoning the minds of Children" thread. If a five-year-old boy killed his sister after seeing the stunt on TV, then the problem is with the parents. If the parents can't get the point across to their young children that Tom & Jerry is just a cartoon and that it is wrong to hit your sister, then they need some parenting lessons.

Also, if I may quote Jhonen Vasquez's JTHM, (well, not really "quote") people don't understand that violence on TV is just for entertainment and is not meant to influence people to do horrible, malicious things. People should know that and parents should also warn their children about that and raise them CORRECTLY.

But also, how easy is it to keep an eye on a 5-yearold 24/7? And I swear to god they are fast o_o

However, it still doesn't make it Tom and Jerry’s fault. It wasn't like "He was such a well behaved boy, then he hit his sister with a baseball bat and killed her." There were signs he shouldn't be trusted alone with a blunt object and a little sister. There always are. I watched Robocop all the time when I a 5, but I didn't try to kill drug dealers, or sniff white powder. The parents were neglectful. End of story.

Ehhh, I dunno if I'll stick around. We'll see.

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The parents should have explained to the kid that television isn't reality. Tom and Jerry is an innocent show; the same for the Roadroad and Coyote. Parents need to make it clear to their kids what's real and what's not, and they need to stop using the media as a scapegoat for their problems.

After all, Tom and Jerry has been around for years. The average kid doesn't go beat his sister because of it.

It's cartoons and video games that turned me into the spiteful monster I am today everyone ... because according to the media we all lack the ability to think for ourselves and make our own decisions..

It's not the creators fault, it's the parents not realizing that such a think would affect their child such a way. you can't just expect a kid to gt everything the first time through, though I will admit I watched tom and jerry all the time when I was little, and I never hit somebody becuase I wanted to see the stars above their heads. I hit them becuase they pissed me off, and only with my fist.

I watched Tom and Jerry as a child, along with Ren and Stimpy, and all other sorts of violent cartoons, but I never attacked my brother because of it. Why? Because of my parents. They were there to watch me, and to tell me 'this is fake, dont copy it.'

I watched Tom and Jerry as a child, along with Ren and Stimpy, and all other sorts of violent cartoons, but I never attacked my brother because of it. Why? Because of my parents. They were there to watch me, and to tell me 'this is fake, dont copy it.'

so true. parents are the guiding light in the darkness of childhood. For with out them, we would turn into, well, freakier people